10.0/101 votes#1 - The Inheritance
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 4/27/2012
Isabel’s friend Joyce asks Walter to find the men who murdered her father, a racetrack aficionado. With the help of some horse-whispering, Walter discovers links to an inheritance Joyce was supposed to receive from her father, and to some mysterious men at the track whom Walter suspects are involved in her father’s death.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Sanford Golden
8.8/1026 votes#2 - Peter
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 4/1/2010
Walter explains to Olivia how Peter came from the alternate universe, and how he was willing to risk everything to save his son.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Jeff Pinkner
8.8/104 votes#3 - What About Bob?
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/1/2007
Things seem to be going well between Harry and his new flame until she walks out on him... and takes Bob's skull. Now Dresden must find Bob and rescue him from the clutches of an old enemy. But will Bob want to be rescued?
Director: David Straiton
Writer: David Simkins
8.8/105 votes#4 - Life's a Mystery
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 8/30/2014
Cullens's family is at risk when a stranger arrives, stirring up old feelings; The Swede faces the consequences.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Mark Richard
8.7/106 votes#5 - One Less Mule
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 9/7/2013
Durant files an injunction against Union Pacific, threatening Cullen's position; Elam deals with a dangerous newcomer.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: John Wirth
8.6/1027 votes#6 - Baggage
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 5/10/2010
During a session with Dr. Nolan, House recounts the case of a woman who arrives at the Princeton Plainsboro emergency room with an unexplained illness and no recollection of who she is. While trying to solve the mystery of the woman's illness, House must also help her piece together her identity.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Doris Egan
8.5/1055 votes#7 - Beginning of the End
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/2014
Dark secrets are revealed as Coulson and his team put everything on the line to stop Garrett and the forces of HYDRA.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Jed Whedon
8.4/107 votes#8 - The Shaun Show
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 5/2/2022
As Shaun and Lea head toward their wedding day, a documentary film maker has chosen to follow their lives to showcase relationships and weddings of atypical couples.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Tracy Taylor
8.4/1010 votes#9 - Fire with Fire
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/4/2015
With the knowledge that he has been betrayed by his siblings, Klaus and an unlikely friend plan to get even with them.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Michael Narducci
8.3/1029 votes#10 - Under My Skin
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 5/4/2009
House and the team take on the case of a ballerina whose lungs collapse in the middle of a performance. When the treatment causes her skin to fall off, the dancer faces not only the prospect of never dancing again but also of dying an agonizing death. The team must use their imaginations to carefully choreograph ways to test and treat her delicate body without killing her. Meanwhile, House continues to suffer from what he thinks is insomnia, and he is willing to go to desperate measures to cure it.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Lawrence Kaplow
8.3/107 votes#11 - Chinatown
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 7/18/2015
Cullen is in California with the Central Pacific Railroad, and must deal with the new workers.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Jami O'Brien
8.3/106 votes#12 - White Justice
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 8/1/2015
Cullen contends with violence in Chinatown set off by disgruntled railroad workers. Meanwhile, the Swede manipulates Phineas in his plot against the Mormons.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: John Romano
8.2/109 votes#13 - Rationality
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/2021
Dr. Shaun Murphy and the team treat a young girl whose father’s personal research complicates their treatment plans. Meanwhile, Dr. Park, Dr. Reznick and Dr. Lim’s patient refuses a life-saving lung transplant despite having a family donor.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Peter Blake
8.2/105 votes#14 - What They Saw
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/2007
When a wealthy man is found murdered in his bed, Crews befriends the only suspect, a homeless thief camping outside the estate.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: N/A
8.2/105 votes#15 - Black Friday
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/2008
Prices aren't the only things falling when Crews and Reese investigate a man's death in a mall the morning of Black Friday.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Marjorie David
8.2/1030 votes#16 - Frozen
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 2/3/2008
House and his team have to diagnose a case at a distance when a researcher at a South Pole base is taken ill.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Liz Friedman
8.1/1030 votes#17 - The Tyrant
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/2009
When a controversial African politician falls ill, he is brought to Princeton Plainsboro for treatment. The team struggles with whether to help a merciless dictator being subpoenaed for crimes against humanity in his country. Meanwhile, Wilson tries to make peace with a feuding neighbor, but House’s prying exacerbates the problem.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Peter Blake
8.1/107 votes#18 - In the Red
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 8/17/2010
The arrest of a jewel thief leads Peter and Neal toward a much more heinous extortion case against adoptive parents.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Matthew Negrete
8.0/1020 votes#19 - Babel One (1)
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/28/2005
Enterprise journeys to Babel with a Tellarite ambassador on board for peace talks with the Andorians, when a distress call from Shran is received.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Michael Sussman
8.0/101 votes#20 - Doe or Die
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/21/2003
Ken Rothman, an ex-police officer that Avery got fired for beating a suspect, gets into the police HQ by faking his death and he and his men quickly take the station and most of the staff (except Frank) hostage. Rothman demands his reputation be cleared, but John manages to get free and escape into the building, and soon discovers Rothman has a supply of Russian-made smallpox. John manages to take out a few terrorists before being recaptured and Rothman leaves John and Avery behind with a shattered vial of smallpox. It's fake, but the whole thing is a ploy to get hold of smallpox vaccine to sell as a bio-weapon. Doe figures it out and they capture Rothman just in time.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Garrett Lerner
8.0/104 votes#21 - Everything... All the Time
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/2008
Crews and Reese discover that rich kids, steroids, and murder are a bad mix.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Rand Ravich
8.0/103 votes#22 - Late Returns
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/4/2004
The shooting death of a man in his driveway is connected to the unsolved 1992 murder of a Democratic campaign worker whose lifeless body was thrown into a nearby river on election night. The investigation centers on the relationship the dead woman had with a present-day congressman. Apparently, the victim in the current homicide probed into the earlier slaying and discovered damning new evidence. Elsewhere, Lilly spies Kite flirting with a new ADA and gets jealous.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Dan Dworkin
8.0/109 votes#23 - Purple Haze
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/19/2006
Strange behavior exhibited by the townspeople is investigated by Carter,who has to solve the mystery before Stark makes a decision that could affect the world.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Jaime Paglia
8.0/103 votes#24 - A Love Supreme
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 12/11/2009
When Echo's past romantic engagements are found murdered, the Dollhouse fears that Alpha has returned to seek his revenge. Adelle grows suspicious of Ballard who hopes to find allies in Boyd and Topher. The Actives turn against their handlers, leaving one member of the house permanently mind-wiped.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: N/A
8.0/101 votes#25 - Hair of the Dog
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/18/2013
Mike convinces Bello to steal from a drug cartel. Briggs helps Charlie cover up bad decisions.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Andrew Colville
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"The Inheritance" is the best rated episode directed by David Straiton. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Sanford Golden. It aired on 4/27/2012 and is rated 1.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "Peter".